# Change of Shift Report Template

Use this change-of-shift report at every nursing or care handoff to pass on resident status, medication checks, and anything that changed since the last report.

## Template fields

- **Date & shift:** 2026-07-12, Day → Evening
- **Outgoing / incoming staff:** Outgoing: Nurse T. Reyes → Incoming: Nurse S. Klein
- **Resident/patient status changes:** Rm 12: appetite improved, ambulating with assistance today
- **Medication given / due:** Rm 12: 14:00 dose given; next due 20:00
- **Vitals / observations flagged:** Rm 7: BP 148/92 at 15:30, above resident's baseline — reported to charge nurse
- **Family / physician contact:** Rm 7 family notified of BP reading at 15:45
- **Incoming staff acknowledgment:** Signed/initialed before outgoing staff leaves floor

## How to use it

- Report only what changed — don't re-read the full chart at every handoff.
- Flag out-of-range vitals immediately, don't bury them in a paragraph.
- Confirm the incoming nurse acknowledges before the outgoing one clocks out.

## Shift-close question

If the incoming nurse only read this report, would they know every resident whose status changed today — and what to watch tonight?